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Date Published: 23/09/2021
ARCHIVED - Covid infections at elderly residences in Valencia fall 84 per cent
Booster jabs are being administered at nursing homes across the region, including Alicante province
As Valencia’s Ministry of Health begins administering booster jabs to the elderly in nursing and residential homes across the region this week, the Business Association of Residences and Services for Dependent Persons has confirmed that new cases fell by 84% between September 6 and 12, and one death was reported – four less than the previous week.
In terms of new positive cases, centres reported eight cases in the same period, compared to 50 in the first week of September, which the association claims “continues to confirm a downward trend in the fifth wave”.
On Monday September 20, the ministry began inoculating 21,000 elderly at residences, who received their second dose six months ago, with a third booster jab to “strengthen the immune system of the most vulnerable”.
More than 1,700 older people and those with “high risk pathologies” have already received the booster dose, and the ministry hopes to complete the third round in residences and elderly day care centres by the end of the week.
On Tuesday, Valencia’s Mnister for Health, Ana Barcelo, was forced to deny the department is storing expired vaccinations, as is the case in Catalonia, and stressed that a surplus was being used in walk-in vaccination centres and to offer additional protection to the elderly and vulnerable.
Data from the central government today, Wednesday September 23, shows that 8,010,150 doses of vaccine have been distributed to the Valencia region, and 7,502,385 have been administered. Some 3,913,944 people are now fully immunised.
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